Simple Present Tense Worksheet (+PDF file with Key Answers)

This is a simple present tense worksheet for beginners. The worksheet focuses on encouraging the students to discover the forms and use of the simple present. Starting from contextualizing the target language in an appropriate text, the students are then guided to discover the affirmative interrogative and negative forms of the simple present. They then are led through a controlled practice of the target language. The final activity consists of a class survey about classmates’ routines. This is meant to give the students the chance to produce an email in which the simple present must be used in a real-life-like situation.

• Level: Beginners
• Lesson objective: The students will be able to use the simple present forms (affirmative, negative, and interrogative to talk about daily routines.
• Timing: 55 minutes
• Materials: Sheets of paper

Simple Present Tense Worksheet For EFL and ESL Students

• The exposure /presentation stage includes:
  • Present simple reading comprehension: a short text that contextualizes the simple present forms.
  • Awareness-raising where students’ attention is drawn to:
    • Verb forms (affirmative, negative, and interrogative).
    • Use of the present simple.
    • Present simple exercises for beginners. Attention is drawn to:
      • The third-person singular forms.
      • The form of the negative and interrogative of the simple present.
      • A class survey about daily routines.
      • Writing an email to a friend about a classmate’s daily routines.

      Reading Comprehension (Text With Present Simple Forms)

      

      Read the following text and complete the chart below:

      I am Ann and this is my sister Jane. We live together in a small flat in New York. We both work in digital marketing. I work with an e-commerce Company but Jane works in an ad network agency. Unlike me, Jane is very organized. She always wakes up at five o’clock in the morning. She goes jogging at half past five every day. She then has a shower and leaves home at seven o’clock. She doesn’t have breakfast at home but she drinks orange juice at ten o’clock at work. She and her colleagues have lunch together at half past twelve at a restaurant near the office. They then have coffee and go back to work at half-past one. Jane finishes work at four o’clock. We meet at home at six o’clock in the evening. We have dinner together but we don’t watch TV. Instead, we go for a walk or meet friends. Jane goes to sleep early. I stay up late working on an online business.

      Over to you! When do you get up? What do you usually do during the week?

      Awareness-raising

      Complete the following table with work or works:

      Which statement is true about the simple present?

      1. The simple present is used to talk about future events.
      2. The simple present is used to talk about past events.
      3. The simple present is used to talk about permanent situations.
      4. The simple present is used to talk about things that are always true (general facts.)
      5. The simple present is used to talk about habits (things we do regularly.)

      Practice

      Add -s or -es to the following verbs:

      Choose the correct verb form:

      1. John _________ physics.
         a. teach
         b. teaches
      2. Leila and Nancy ____ to the gym every day.
         a. go
         b. goes
      3. I and my brother always ____ my mother.
         a. help
         b. helps
      4. He ____ the laundry every Sunday.
         a. do
         b. does
      5. My grandfather ____ fishing.
         a. like
         b. likes
      6. He _________ TV.
         a. don’t watch
         b. doesn’t watch

      Rewrite the following sentences with the subject suggested:

      1. Nancy and Jane go to the gym on Sunday.
         Alan …
      2. They visit Paris every summer holiday.
         I …
      3. We read the newspaper every morning.
         My father …
      4. I watch the news in the evening.
         My brother …
      5. They have a cat.
         My sister …
      6. We sell digital products.
         This company …

      Fill in the blanks with don’t or doesn’t:

      1. John and his wife _______ go to the mall.
      2. He _______ like shopping on Saturday.
      3. They_____ stay at home on Saturday.
      4. I and my sister _______ like to eat fish.
      5. He _______ know the truth.
      6. My brother _______ wear jeans.

      Ask questions using the prompts below:

      1. They visit Roma in June.
         …
      2. Nancy likes eating chicken.
         …
      3. Your sister goes to the gym every Sunday.
         …
      4. They sell electronic gadgets in this shop.
         …
      5. Your mother wakes up at 6 o’clock every day.
         …
      6. Your best friend works in a hotel.
         …

      Write questions to the underlined words:

      1. Jane goes to the gym at 7 a.m.
         What time …
      2. He helps my mother.
         Who …
      3. She loves writing poems.
         What …
      4. He works in a café.
         Where …
      5. He does his homework in the evening.
         When …
      6. She washes the dishes every day.
         What …

      Production

      Class survey

      Ask students to have a class survey using the following questionnaire:

      Writing an email

      Once they finish, ask them to write an email to a friend of theirs, telling them about one of their classmate’s daily routines.

      Hello,

      I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to tell you about my classmate’s daily routines.

      Best,
      ……

      Simple Present Worksheet (PDF + Key)

      

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